Bert Martin Ohnemüller is a high performance business coach, sought-after speaker and author.

He has three decades of experience in leadership, marketing, and communication under his belt.

In his work, he combines the knowledge gained from brain research, evolutionary biology, and positive psychology with the subjects of leadership, communication, and inspiration with the goal of helping people to discover their “best self“ and uniting them with their true emotional strength in mind.

Most recently, he published Mehr Erfolg am Point of Sale and Neues Denken. Neues Handeln. As a lecturer of neuromerchandising® and leadership, he shares his experiences at the Steinbeis-Hochschule in Berlin, the Hochschule Furtwangen University, the American University of Iraq, as well as the Institute for Marketing and Communication in Wiesbaden (IMK).

Bert is married and a father of four.

Arthur Keleti, cyber-secret futurist, is widely respected around the world as an expert on cybersecurity, and a visionary in his field. He is the founder of the long-running East-European cybersecurity grand conf-expo ITBN. Arthur is also the President and founder of the Voluntary Cyber Defence Collaboration, and he works for T-Systems Hungary as IT Security Strategist since 1999. He is the author of “The Imperfect Secret” a book on cyber-secrets, and the future of AI-based privacy. He is also an Executive Producer of the movie SIGHT: Extended a stunning, Augmented Reality themed Sci-Fi thriller in the making.

Bommy is an experienced, strategic thinker who helps companies navigate the digital age and transform business performance. She is a strong leader driving change in today’s exponential environment with a focus on medtech, innovation and connected health technologies.

Bommy was part of a pioneering team that brought digital journalism to the International Herald Tribune in 2003. Since 2011, she has been working with startups bringing disruptive health solutions to the market. She has recently been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at HiNounou, an innovative health tech company on a mission to empower the world’s silver generation to live longer, healthier and happier, at home, while bringing greater peace of mind to their families.

Marco has been working with US Government and collaborating closely with the University of California, Davis on new security paradigms. During 2009 he has been working at NIST, Maryland where he improved the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) standard.

He collaborates with different national and international public and private agencies. Marco co-founded Yoroi believing in a human-centric cyber defense approach which took him to build Yoroi Cyber Security Defence Center.

Jakub Olek is a communications strategist with over 10 years’ experience of working with new technology and financial companies on government relations, public policy, corporate communications and regulatory affairs.

As Senior Government Relations Director for Lime – the scooter sharing company – he leads market entry and governmental affairs at central and local level in Eastern European countries and Russia. He has successfully led the launch of Lime in seven cities and secured its first to market position as well as introduced Lime to unique partnerships opportunities with cities across the region.

In previous roles, Jakub served as policy and public affairs regional lead for Ofo and Santander Group. With several years in consulting business he also gained an international business development experience while working in Guangzhou, China and Bangalore, India.

Jakub is a corporate lawyer by training, and a graduate of the Warsaw University.

Janelle is the Marketing Manager at Crobox, an Amsterdam-based Customer Intelligence solution that combines consumer psychology with AI to deliver actionable insights. At Crobox, she manages the marketing team and defines the brand direction and strategy, translating it into bitesize cross-department projects. Her analytical yet empathetic perspective helps translate the complicated, and often intimidating, elements of data analysis into digestible actions for online retail professionals.

Throughout her career, she has used her background in psychology to make marketing efforts more engaging and relevant. Customer centricity is a vital part of her approach, from leveraging data insights to improve the customer experience to creating stories that are just as entertaining as they are educational. It’s within this scope that she helps entrepreneurs and small businesses future-proof brand strategies.

Oskari is a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits and an IPO, more than ten years of experience of startup accelerating & co-operation between startups and corporations. I

n the past, he was Partner at seed fund and venture accelerator Pivot5 and behind such ventures as RTS Networks (IPO), Reippailupuisto Huimala (exit HopLop), Offerium (exit Sanoma), KoppiCatch, and Tabletkoulu.

Oskari has a Ph.D. in Venture Capital with studies in Stanford and the National University of Singapore.  He is currently Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers Redstone’s activities in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Steve Rymell joined Airbus (then known as EADS) in 2000, having held many roles within the IT & Security organisations of several well-known UK companies from the Automobile sector to Fast Moving Consumer Goods.

He started at Airbus as IT & Security strategist within the satellites division and was appointed as Chief Information Officer in 2003, at which time he made the move from the UK to Germany.

In Jan 2007, he took a Director post within the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), ensuring cyber defence and security solutions to protect all overseas based parts of the UK government.
He returned to Airbus, and Germany, in April 2011 and made the logical move to the CyberSecurity organisation. Since then Steven has been part of the executive team, shaping the development of the organisation through 8 years of constant growth.

Today, his 38 years of experience are focused on leading our Cyber Technology Strategy, choosing cyber technologies, and developing cyber capabilities for the future.

Tesla’s Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality group founder, leading the company to examine spatial technology for solving some of it’s toughest challenges across its motor and energy businesses. Tyler Lindell is an AR/VR industry staple. By bringing together the hottest news in AR/VR, he is recognized as a Top 50 People to Follow in VR. The founder of ASDF’s TylerLindell.com and host of the “Executive’s Guide” Podcast, found on iTunes, showing people how to start their own AR/VR department demonstrates Tyler’s broad reach across the industry.

Working with international hyperloop company, rLoop, to build an AR interface for remote operators and to create a pod for the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, Chief Product Officer at Scanta, XR Ignite Accelerator Mentor, and Founding Member of AR Cloud – Tyler Lindell is pulling every lever to help the AR/VR space progress forward at an unprecedented rate.

Tyler works directly with some of the most important AR/VR brands to lead and influence their respective markets.

Thorsten Koch studied business administration, mainly focussed on computer science and operations research, in Marburg. Subsequently he held positions as Sales Manager for groupware systems at debis Systemhaus in Aachen (later T-Systems), was director of IT at Venture Park in Berlin (Pixelpark subsidiary) and worked as Head of Product Development at the inform consult AG in Cologne.

In 2006, Thorsten came to Postini and played a significant role in establishing the Central European market. With the acquisition of Postini by Google in 2007, his area of responsibility was extended to the distribution of Google for Work business solutions. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, Thorsten supported Google’s largest customers and from regulated industries in EMEA to grow their business using Google for Work. Since 2017 Thorsten is building and heading the Customer Engineering team for Google Cloud in Central Eastern Europe which covers 30 countries.

Juraj studied economics and business policy at the University of Economics in Prague. At the beginning of his career, he worked as marketing and product development manager and helped with building 2 leader digital banks in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Then he benefited from his experience and moved to e-commerce industry, where he’s currently working as a Sales Manager for CEE in Exponea, one of the fastest growing SaaS company in Europe. His main focus are 3 e-commerce verticals – fashion, travel and online retail, where together with his team, they obtained many success stories with market e-commerce leaders.

Through single customer view and advanced analytics, Exponea delivers personalized consistent message, at the right time, through various digital channels to every customer, for creating and maintaining long-term relationship – which is also philosophy of Exponea with its clients as well.

Maria Pocovi is CEO and founder of Emotion Research LAB, a computer vision company which explores how machines understand human emotions. Since 2014 the company has provided facial emotion recognition algorithms with on-line and on-premises solutions for real-time applications.

Maria is passionate about human-technology interaction and the process of bringing new applications to the market which help companies empower emotional sensing on devices to prepare brands to provide the next generation of services, products and experiences to their customers.

Guest speaker “Artificial Intelligence: Cloud and Edge Implementations” Oxford University and MBA, IESE Business School University of Navarra (Barcelona, Spain)

An experienced adviser for companies on market entry, innovation scouting and growth strategies, Idan has worked with some of Israel’s most innovative early-stage startups in the fields of AI, computer vision and cyber security. With a prior focus on Smart Cities, Idan recently became Director of the UK Israel Tech Hub.

Based at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Hub drives economic growth by establishing tech partnerships that have helped boost the UK economy by as much as £1 billion since it was launched in 2011.

As the Director of the Hub, Idan is using strategic skills and creativity to enable British companies to access Israel’s tech cluster and further develop projects such as smart cities and smart industries, incorporating AI, Computer vision, IoT and other emerging tech to address problems, add value and map future directions in the fields of education, healthcare, communications, transportation, energy and others.

Vasile Voicu  is a highly-accomplished versatile telecommunications executive with more than 15 years professional experience and a proven track record in cloud and cybersecurity markets. Cutting-edge Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Care know-how with a track record of converting it into real results. Proved results in Cloud, Cybersecurity both in commercial and technical fields in various positions: Product Marketing Director, Sales Director, Presales Director.

Since 2014 he lead Commercial Data & Business cluster within PAN IP project created by Deutsche Telekom for all EU subsidiaries with the purpose of using Cross-European production synergies by implementing centralized productions platforms using new technologies: SDN (Software Defined Networks) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization). Lead cross-functional team of 80 experts to create commercial and technical requirements for Cloud, Virtual CPE and Cybersecurity products.

Vasile Voicu hold a BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering from the University Polytechnic of Bucharest , MBA in Strategic Management and several postgraduate studies in business management, marketing and strategy.

Des has worked in the world of advertising for over 18 years. He is currently the Global Head of Client Development for iProspect and is responsible for leading our client approach to both new and existing clients. Prior to joining iProspect he has had experience across various markets, having had local, global and regional roles within Europe, APAC and LATAM. He also has a depth of experience having worked in media and creative agencies as well having been a client when he began his career.

He was the Head of Planning in Hong Kong for Isobar, and then moved to Miami as the Head of Strategy, LATAM for Mindshare. In the last few years he has been living in London and was the Global Head of New Business for Mindshare.

Des was named in Campaign Magazine APAC’s 40 under 40, 2013, and is now finally 40.

Rodrigo Díaz Concha is a Microsoft Regional Director, and for 11 consecutive times he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, currently in both Developer Technologies and Microsoft Azure categories. He is a Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute Certified Software Architecture Professional, Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster, MCSD, MCTS, MCPD, MCP and LinkedIn Learning Author.

Author of “Aplicaciones de Negocio con Silverlight 5” (Business Applications with Silverlight 5), the very first book about Silverlight 5 in Spanish language and “Xamarin.Forms en Acción: Aplicaciones de negocio” (Xamarin.Forms in action: Business applications), the very first book about Xamarin.Forms in Spanish language.

With more than 20 years of experience, he has architected international award-winner software solutions. As Chief Software Architect at Lumed, he builds digital health and telemedicine solutions focused on transforming people’s lives. Also, he is a frequent speaker at Microsoft and non-Microsoft events all over Latin America, USA and Europe.

Emir’s 25 years of work has been balanced between engineering, consulting and account management, and travel. During that time, he did business in over 20 countries. At the beginning, engineering work was focused on protecting at that time second-biggest Internet Backbone, AS 3561, while an advisory board member at multiple startups he helped define and formalize engineering requirements for different security solutions.
Middle part of his career was focused on providing technical solution for complex ICT projects in CEE working for T-Systems.

Last 4+ years Emir is working for Qualys where his passion is to develop strategies which help CIOs and CISO.s of large enterprises and Government agencies to bring security to the new level. He has worked with hundreds of clients across government, retail, banking, insurance, and others to improve their IT visibility, security and compliance posture.

Oresztész is working at EPAM Systems with approximately 13 years of professional experience. 5 years ago he was promoted to a lead software engineer. Since then he mainly focuses on mentoring & coaching other developers, building and forming software development teams and practicing agile & lean methodologies. During his professional career, he worked in a wide variety of projects from R&D, product development to software maintenance. Both at small start-ups and large enterprises. Within the brief 5 years of his leading career, he had the chance to work with around 50 people with different personality, skillset, and preferences.

Andy Lark is a globally awarded leader and entrepreneur with significant experience of building the world’s technology, online and consumer businesses. He has built one of the most successful SaaS start-ups into a global software powerhouse; launched apps used by millions every day; lead the transformation of Australia’s most vibrant financial services brand; and, built one of the largest eCommerce sites in the world. Today he is a highly sought-after speaker, futurist and consultant on brand, marketing, digital and customer experience.

He has held multiple C-Suite roles – and worked with leading brands – including, Air New Zealand, Commonwealth Bank, Dell, Emirates Team New Zealand, Foxtel, Southwest Airlines, Foxtel, and Xero. Today Andy chairs Group Lark – a global consultancy driving brand and digital transformations for the world’s leading countries and enterprises. He is a non-executive director of Mercury Energy. He has held directorships with Argent Networks, No8 Ventures, Endace Systems, Simple (chair), SLI Systems, and Fronde. He and invests in and advises numerous start-ups.

Andy is regularly rated in the Top 100 CMOs and digital leaders globally; writes one of the leading marketing blogs – The Daily Lark; and recently co-authored NYTimes and Amazon best-seller, Augmented – cited by China’s President Xi Jinping as recommended reading on Artificial Intelligence.

The Head of SEO Department @SEO Cupcake in the last 5 years with over 8 years of experience in the SEO industry from Romania.

Dimitrios Prodromou is the founder and technical director of Humanizing Technologies GmbH, a company that consistently pursues the goal of integrating robots into everyday life in society and creating meaningful application scenarios.

Under the “FernArbeiter” brand, the portfolio is expanded to include the “Telepresence robot” Double. Together with his co-founder Tim Schuster, the team comprises 14 clever and bright minds in three locations in Germany and Austria.

The company is one of the leading software and solution provider for Pepper, the most advanced humanoid robot (by Softbank Robotics). Their ready-to-use core software enables everybody to manage multiple robots, create content and develop use cases in no-time, everything without a single line of code. This Robot Management System drives 110+ robots, and it is considered as the biggest robotic fleet in Europe in private administration. Dimitrios Prodromou holds a master degree in Mechatronics/Robotics and is actively working since 15years in the robotic business.

Eliza is the CEO and Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company, who specialize in delivering intelligence lead adversary emulation purple teaming & the bespoke building of Security Operation Centers. Eliza is also the Founder and Director of Ladies of London Hacking Society (LLHS). LLHS is one of the largest technical cyber-security groups in Europe, and the only one of its kind in the world.

Eliza originally trained in Digital Forensics at university but fell in love with purple teaming after exploring both penetration testing and incident response. She is an advocate for accessible education, a driver of the women in cyber-security movement, she champions neurodiversity and is an international technical speaker.

Anton has worked in the information security industry since the beginning of the century. He began his career as a penetration tester and ISO 27002 auditor in security consultancy. He later became one of the first certified PCI DSS auditors in Russia. In 2009 Anton stepped away from security consultancy business and joined the Global Information Security team at Barclays Bank, where he was a member of the Security Assessment and Penetration Testing teams.

Anton joined Yandex in 2011 as Chief Security Officer, where he builds and manage Security department. Yandex is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website. Anton is responsible for developing and leading information security strategy and risk management plans, designing security controls and processes across the company.

Shallu Behar-Sheehan is an accomplished international marketer with over 25 years’ experience in creating and delivering integrated strategic revenue generating marketing initiatives globally.

Acknowledged as one of the Top 20 Women in Tech by B2B Marketing and one of the 100 Most Influential B2B Technology Marketers in Europe by the prominent online tech community Hot Topics, Shallu has helped technology organizations significantly raise their brand profile in highly competitive environments.

As an innovative and award winning leader, Shallu has a strong track record of spearheading industry leading campaigns against aggressive business targets, which deliver timely and impactful returns on investment.

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.

Gioni is Accenture Interactive Martech Innovation Lead for ICEG. He has almost 20 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, mainly focused on Digital Marketing, Web Content Management and e-Commerce, working in international and complex environments on projects for multinational companies. Within his team he is working on MarTech and ADTech solutions and scouting for innovative technologies.

Sergii Ostryanko is a Business Development Manager at ABBYY Application Software Business Unit, currently developing markets in Poland, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Baltics and Iraq. Joined the company in 2016. Previously studied and worked in the United Kingdom and Denmark.

Accompanied educational projects in US, the UK, Australia and Canada. Sergii holds an MSc in International Management with European study from University of Exeter and is an Affiliate member of the Institute of Leadership and Management in London.

Ioana is the Co-Founder & Marketing Strategist of KITE: the digital marketing & creativity agency, Digital Marketing Consultant and a Marketing & Corporate Communication trainer, with over 14 years experience in the marcomm industry. She has delivered, together with her agile teams, hundreds of successful national online campaigns for B2C and B2B companies, with a significant focus on the FMCG, HoReCa, health, travel and business services fields, for brands like Samsung. Dr. Oetker, Smithfield, Muller, Accor Hotels, Sixt, Goodmills, Cinemacity, etc.

The major added value that Ioana & KITE work to bring to their clients is the highly customised development of marketing & digital solutions outlined for each specific business objective: there’s uniqueness and a clever mix of marketing and technology for each brand. She is a strong believer in strategies made to measure, where the mixology of channels, tactics and technologies serves both the consumer’s lifestyle and needs and the business agenda.

The mix of services delivered by her & the team at KITE are structured in three dimensions: Marketing Strategy & Creativity, Digital Development & Technology and Content Marketing, Online Media & Advertising.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Leadership, Team Leadership and Team Management.

Justin Hendrix is Executive Director of NYC Media Lab, a public-private partnership between the City’s industry and its universities to drive emerging media and technology innovation and entrepreneurship, and the founding Executive Director of RLab, a new 16,500 square foot facility including co-working labs, classrooms, studios, and more in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. RLab is the nation’s first city-funded center for research, entrepreneurship and education in virtual and augmented-reality, spatial computing and other emerging media technologies.

Previously he was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist. He holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MSc in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Luca is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Customer Success Team. His team is dedicated to making customers successful especially on DevTest Labs and .NET Core. In the past he worked on a few things in Microsoft (SQL Server, ADO.NET, LINQ, C#, F#, VS IDEs, …) and Credit Suisse London. He now lives in Xabia, Spain.

During his 16 years’ experience in IT, Ionut Codreanu had several roles that combine his strong technical background with his passion for people development and delivering high quality products.

Ionut is in charge of defining the vision, overseeing the development stages, evaluating the product, anticipating client’s needs and acting as a connector for the stakeholders, in the complex process of delivering a quality product in a highly competitive environment.

As a Producer for one of the most important brands in the group, Ionut is leading creative teams in a fast changing and constantly challenging environment, touching areas like Machine Learning, Automation and Cloud gaming.

He believes that having a consumer-oriented and product owner mindset is the way to achieve excellence.

Lara has 10 years of experience in the Marketing industry and is passionate about how products can drive solutions for brands, and people. Lara has been with LinkedIn for over 4 years working with marketers, agencies and partners, helping them unlock their potential as both users and clients of LinkedIn, driving personal and professional goals.

Marketers also benefit from Lara’s experience at Microsoft and Skype, where she managed advertising and creative campaigns, as well as, tested new product offerings.

Gabriel Caramis is the CEO and Founder of Woobble with an experience of over 10 years in Online Marketing. He launched Woobble in 2017 with the focus to solve customer problems with specific to all the web, mobile and marketing solutions.

Gabriel always makes sure, the solutions are 100% unique and meet the client’s requirements. He is self-determined and urges to provide the best solution to suit your business nature and goal.

His team of professionals will closely work with you and spot the right window for your business to attract customers. They have a wide area of knowledge in providing vital solutions and services in the areas of information technology, consulting and outsourcing in various segments of industry like advertising, education, finance, healthcare, life sciences, hotel/hospitality, media and entertainment, mobile and wireless, retail, real estate, sports and fitness, technology, non-profit and more.

His motto is “If your Business is Bread and Butter, Woobble is going to be your Jam!”

My name is Alexandru Petrescu, I work as “R&D” in EXE Software, I am a university assistant, Technical Lead at MIC UPB and Country Lead MSP Romania. I am passionate about technology, especially in AI and I am proud of it, which has led to achievements such as an article published in 2019 IEEE ICCP or the certification of “Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate”

Double awarding-winning globally recognized expert and visionary in the World of Cyber Security, Forbes Tech Council Member, and technology leader with 20 years of experience executing team leadership in designing effective cyber and information security solutions. Jason continues to raise and educate the profile of Information Security risks and was instrumental in the introduction of the role CSO (Chief Security Officer) globally.

Jason has devoted his time to reducing and researching Cyber Risks and in-turn been the visionary in a number of the world-leading cybersecurity services and the founder of the world’s leading Cloud-Based Authentication Platform CRYPTOCard. As a former ethical hacker, Jason has used his knowledge and expertise to create technologies that ensure organizations stay one step ahead of the risks presented by ongoing advances in Cyber threats and risks.

Talented leader and collaborator with the ability and knowledge to start new businesses, maximize resources, execute strategic plans, and build or transform teams to drive innovative Cyber Security product development and delivery. With the professional experience of driving technology performance on a global scale.

Jason continues to published articles and white papers Globally and continually appears on BBC, ITV, CNN, Fox News and CNBC as well as Radio 5, Sky News and BBC World News as an expert advisor on Cyber and Information Security matters and issues. His expertise has been cited in global publications including Time, SC Magazine, InfoSec, Computing and Computer Weekly magazines and in the FT, Guardian, Times and Evening Standard and is recognized as a lead figure within the global information security industry.

Jason has held senior positions within a number of organizations, including Ernst & Young’s Information Security Assurance and Advisory Services practice, CEO of WhiteHat and Cryptocard. Clients have included NHS, Governments, as well as a large number of FTSE 100 organizations, for whom Jason has created and developed entire security frameworks as well as Information Security Assessment Methodologies. In addition, Jason regularly provides advice and guidance to Governments, Law Enforcement and Military agencies on Information Security matters globally.

M.Sc., Ph.D. in Robotics & AI. 30+ years of experience with Professional Service Robots. Created one of Europe’s largest robotics innovator companies with more than 80 experts. Has given more than 250 talks about robotics around the world, incl. TED-x talks. EU reviewer, evaluator, advisor. Several awards & prizes. Dedicated to robotic entrepreneurship, innovation and business.

Co-founder and Head of Innovation & New Ventures at Standing on Giants – transforming the way businesses communicate with customers

Arguably the leading expert in the burgeoning world of community management, Vincent Boon (a member of the founding team behind the disruptive telecoms company, giffgaff set up in 2009), has been using his attentions and talents at Standing on Giants to create online communities that bring companies and their customers closer together. In the modern world, unrivalled customer experience lies at the heart of every strong brand. Companies who collaborate effectively with their customers can transform everything from customer service, sales, marketing, product development and more.

At Standing on Giants he has developed a revolutionary community-driven business model that combines technology, people and processes. And helped brands all around the globe become more customer-centric, creating collaborative communities with bold businesses like Airbnb, Movistar, Check-a-Trade, and O2.

Jason Yim is the CEO and Executive Creative Director of Trigger – The Mixed Reality Agency with offices in Los Angeles and Aarhus, Denmark. He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio Partner, showcase developer for Vuforia and Google, and as an early developer for Magic Leap.

Jason’s recent high-profile work incorporates mixed reality in marketing (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), product development (Hotwheels – Augmoto), location-based experiences (Fish Designer for LEGO House) and Enterprise tools (AR Design Evaluation tool for Honda), all of which demonstrates the wide spectrum of use cases for mixed reality across all industries.

In 2015, Jason returned to his childhood home to speak at TEDx Hong Kong on “Computer Vision Bringing Toys to Life” Additionally, Jason has 4 assigned Patents in AR/MR with several more pending.

Jason was also featured in Apple’s first TV show: Planet of the Apps and won two LA Auto Show Design Challenges back-to-back with his partners at Honda Advanced Design.

Cristian is currently the Digital Transformation Manager in Vodafone Group.

His responsibilities include agile transformation and software automation in Vodafone.

Prior to this he involved in strategic transformation projects including predictive analytics and machine learning.
He also graduated an MBA at Maastricht School of Management.

Consumer Data Strategist at Starcom Romania  – Andreea has more than 5 years experience in marketing research, with over 100 studies conducted in areas as: Banking, Life Insurance, Auto, Pharma, Personal Care/Cosmetics, Telecom, Technology, FMCG and Retail.

During the past 1 year and half working as a Consumer Data Strategist, has analyzed complex consumer profiles, measured the communication effectiveness on brand image indicators, identified communication territories and evaluated the brands visibility from consumers discussions on social media and also investigated new consumer behaviors that can be addressed by different brands. In 2019 has graduated the Media Strategy and Planning courses organized by IAA school.

Anabela Luca is Managing Director & Online Marketing Consultant/Google Trainer at adLemonade.com, Google Premier Partner agency in Romania. Anabela loves digital, especially Pay Per Click marketing that she masters for over 9 years now. She is dedicated to tailoring custom PPC strategies that dramatically improve the revenue and profits for her clients. Her experience with both large-scale clients seeking international success and SMBs eager to get the most out of their advertising budget, she gladly solved challenges by providing strategies that simply work.

As one of the 5 Google trainers in Romania, Anabela delivered over 150 trainings on Google AdWords & Analytics in Google programs like Online Marketing Academy & Google Partners in Romania&internationally. Through her webinars as well as her offline classes, she trained over 3.000 students and professionals in growing their skills as online marketers. You can see some of her webinars and presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc0Fo15aupkMySsENwsgbJou8YIOQibxn.

Anabela believes you can achieve your advertising goals by staying focused on your objectives and flexible in your approach.

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains, and formerly founded MyGet. He’s an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP.

Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten’s blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

For 3 years with WAGO in the automation department, developing complex solutions for customers to help them in the transition to an IoT driven world.

Tech enthusiast, always wanting to try out the newest and most advanced technologies that can make life and business easier.

Alexandru Luca is an experienced Senior Consultant for Mobile Technologies with over 15 years experience in IT & C field. Over the years, Mr. Luca has gained valuable experience in this field both by taking key roles in the companies in which he has worked and by acquiring important certifications in this field such as Certified Enterprise Mobility Management, Certified Solution Design & Deployment and Certified System Architecture.

Mr. Luca is a member of the certSIGN team for more than 4 years during which, his activity was an important part of certSIGN’s work and business in this field. The company, with its own mobile security department, has developed and now owns its proprietary mobile products, such as Trust4Mobile – Voice and Messages Encryption application, Fides – Electronic Signature application, and, at this moment,  is giving increased interest in continuously improving products and maintaining them at a constantly up-to-date technological level.”

With over 20 years experience in the field of IT solutions for infrastructure and security, Ovidiu Seceleanu manages the B2B solutions team of the Samsung Romania IM division. The mission is to promote Samsung mobility solutions for companies, to develop the partners ecosystem and to make Samsung Knox the market leader in the field of mobile device management solutions.

A true professional with both business and tech skills and over 15 years of expertise in tracking inventory of hardware and software, negotiating with vendors and suppliers, project management and analyzing the cost for the upgrades and maintenance in technology.

Peter Pilgrim is a self-employed cloud-native Java software developer. He is a book author: “Digital Java EE 7 Development” and “Java EE 7 Developer Handbook” published by Packt.

Peter is elected to the Java Champions in 2007. He once upon time founded and managed a Java User Group. He has worked as an independent contractor for over a decade. Peter discovered Java programming language in 1998 and has never looked back. He has had his share of Java Applets, Swing, JavaFX, EJB and messaging technologies. He has worked directly for investment banks such as Deutsche and Lloyds and other financial services. Nowadays Peter helps bluechip and other e-commerce concerns such as Santander, Kobalt Music and Sainsburys Digital in there developer experience and their transformation from legacy monoliths to fully function microservices and most definitely in the cloud.

Peter has a personal blog at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/ and you can follow him on Twitter via @peter_pilgrim.

When not working with Java, Peters loves to listen to music, play football (soccer) and occasionally does pick up a lead electric guitar.

Ruben Horbach is spearheading Innovation for German digital agency ETECTURE and works closely with C-level management to develop the long term digital strategy of the agency.

ETECTURE is always using the latest technologies available while delivering digital transformation projects through a proven method for some of the leading companies in Germany including Daimler, Volkswagen and ING.

Before his current role, Ruben worked as Head of Innovation for the London based Digital Innovation agency Somo. During his time with Somo he worked with many global brands including Audi, BP, Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

Furthermore, he worked for Apple, founded two start-ups and is a frequent international keynote speaker.

Ruben currently lives in Amsterdam.

Gregory Pickett CISSP, GCIA, GPEN has a background in intrusion analysis for Fortune 100 companies but now works with NuTech Logix’s Assessment Practice.  As a security professional, his primary area of focus and occasional research is networks with an interest in using network traffic to better understand, to better defend, and sometimes to better exploit the systems that live on them.

Ovidiu Diaconescu is an experienced technologist and tech founder with a strong background in information technology, privacy, security and the gaming industry.

He started as a freelancer by founding, architecting and lead developing a fund-raising platform used in the United States, Canada, UK and Israel. He, later on, worked in the gaming industry, leading the development of risk management platforms, Cloud technologies, products, QA, operations and business.

He is currently the CRM Tech Team Leader at Ubisoft, working with one of the top-ranking leading technology in Campaign Management.

Alexandra Galviz was the former Head of Training and Development for a Foreign Exchange broker by the time she was 24 years old. Finding herself a round peg in a square hole she spent time learning what her values, passions and skills were. Unable to find a role that aligned with all the above, Alex decided to create her own portfolio career.

She has been named LinkedIn Top Voice for the UK for the last two years running, making her in the top most influential content creators on LinkedIn. She has since went onto work with the likes of Shell, Deloitte, BP and Microsoft.

She is also the co-founder of a global movement called #LinkedInLocal that has grown to 80 countries, in over 600 cities and reached over 100,000 members. A hashtag campaign that started with the intention of encouraging people to get offline and meet the people behind the profile for informal networking that is now the longest and largest running campaign on LinkedIn.

Over the past 15 years, Carole’s global track record has led her to manage brands and teams in the USA, Belgium, Germany, Canada and lately in the Netherlands. Carole can be regarded as a serial intrapreneur, who comes into companies and creates departments which did not exist before, may it be Digital, e-Commerce and more lately Mobile/Software sub-division within the TomTom Consumer Division. Indeed she has been responsible multiple times for defining & implementing brand strategies, product launches and e-Commerce and mobile platforms (from scratch) to help achieve brand and growth targets, build credibility and reach amongst the target audience.

Laurentiu Popescu has over 18 years of work experience in the IT&C industry with background in marketing strategy, market research, competitive analysis, business consulting, lead generation and go-to-market services.

In his capacity of Security Product Management Lead at Orange, Laurențiu oversees the product portfolio, contributing to the roadmap development and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Orange România, Laurențiu Popescu held positions with Bitdefender as Global Marketing Manager, Research & Insights and Country Manager for IDC România.

With over 13 years of experience in the telecom industry and IT Operations, Marian is now responsible with the automation implementation and evolution in Orange Romania’s IT Operations department.

An IT infrastructure and operations expert with experience across vast areas of IT such as networking, virtualization, servers, applications, cloud and containers.

I have been working around software development for twenty years. During these years I have played a lot of different roles around software development like implementing agile methodologies, implementing software development practices like unit testing, CI/CD, and more.

My principal interests are helping teams to be more effective in their development teams with tools like best practices and agile methodologies. I am a current Microsoft MVP on software development technologies and run the MadridDotNet users group.

Also I love to be involved in the creation and developing all aspects of software products with proven experience during my career.

Marian Seitan, MBA, is the General Manager of the Mediapost Hit Mail group. He founded the Hit Mail company in 1997 and was one of the pioneers of direct marketing in Romania. Under his leadership, Hit Mail has launched year after year the main direct marketing tools in Romania and has become a veritable direct marketing school for many marketers. He is also the president of ARMAD (the Romanian Direct Marketing Association).

Mediapost Hit Mail group is currently the biggest direct and relationship marketing group in Romania, with a turnover of 23 million Euro in 2018. It is owned 100% by the French Post.

Marian Seitan is also an investor in 5 companies from different fields of activity. His expertise is situated at the interdisciplinary intersection between logistics, marketing and IT.

Stewart Addison works in the IBM Runtimes team in the UK and is a member of the Technical Steering Committee at AdoptOpenJDK maaging the direction of the project and works as infrastructure lead and managing many of the AdoptOpenJDK releases.www.github.com/gdams

He has extensive cross-platform sysadmin and development experience at IBM where he likes trying to automate himself out of a job, and has working with Linux for over 20 years and previously worked on the Node.js project and various other development projects and a wide range of platforms and languages and co-operating with multiple teams across the globe.

Andreea joined E.ON Romania in April 2018, when she took over the position of Deputy General Manager – member of the Management Board and Strategy, Markets and Digitalization Director.

From this position, she coordinates areas of strategy, product innovation and development, market research and customer analysis, as well as digital transformation & development and IT.

Andreea Ioniţă has an international experience of over 14 years in telecom industry, in Romania, Great Britain, Sweden and in several countries in Africa as well, working in different management positions for companies such as Orange, Ericsson and Vodafone.

From her previous position – Strategy and Program Manager at Orange Romania and member of the Management Board, Andreea contributed to the development of the vision and the market strategy of one of the top companies in the telecommunication industry. She graduated the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Finance and Banking, attended Master’s Degree courses in Business Management and participated in specialized courses organized by prestigious institutions such as: International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland, Boston University Management School, USA, IESE Business School Barcelona, Spain and Asia-Pacific Leadership Development Institute Beijing, China.

Andrei is a highly skilled and experienced consultant in Digital Customer Experience, IT Security and Business Transformation domains.

Over the last 12 years, he helped large international customers from Telecom and Banking industries steer their IT strategies to ride the latest technological trends.

Lately, he focused on R&D around Open Banking, particularly the security challenges, in close cooperation with leading software vendors and initiative groups. One of his early achievement in this domain was winning the Open Banking Institute Hackathon in 2018.

He is the lead contributor in launching Smart Fintech, an Open Banking accelerator platform powered by IT Smart Systems.

Vlad is a highly skilled business consultant, experienced in Digital Business Transformations, Strategy and Process Administration and Sales Leadership, working intensively with both Telecom and Financial Industries.

He is an experienced Business Leader and Senior Program Manager with a proven track records of more than 19 years in IT&C industry.

Recognized for taking on the challenges others shy away from. Garrihy has spent his career helping some of the world’s largest technology brands to transform their marketing efforts whilst delivering brand and sales growth.

Passionate about communication, creativity, technological innovation & commercially driven marketing, he believes these are the critical foundations to any successful marketing organization.

Andrew is currently the Global Chief Brand Officer, at Huawei Technologies Consumer business. Prior to joining Huawei, he gained over 15 years of marketing experience with international brands such as Qualcomm, Samsung and Vodafone.

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé is the Chairman of IREST (Economic and Social Research Institute on Telecommunications), a think tank of influence based in Paris.

Jean-Pierre has been Secretary General of the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA), representing the digital telecommunications industry (operators, manufacturers, research and academic institutes,
verticals, SMEs) in the Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) with the European Commission, from 2016 until 2019. He has also been Chairman of the 5G PPP Steering Board.

Jean-Pierre has been Chairman of mobile industry association The UMTS Forum from 2003 until 2016, with a mission to promote a common vision of the development of 3G UMTS and 4G LTE and evolutions, and to ensure their worldwide commercial success.

Joining France Telecom (FT) in 1979, Bienaimé has had responsibilities including Director Planning Department at FT, Advisor to the Director General of Moroccan Telecommunications in Rabat, Director
of Marketing and Product Development for International Networks Services at FT, Chief Executive Officer of Nexus International, and Vice-President Group Mobile Support at Orange. From 2010 until 2016, Jean-Pierre has been Senior Vice-President at Orange Wholesale.

Jean-Pierre is graduated from ESSEC Business School (Master in Management), from Sciences-Po Paris, from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Postes Télécommunications – Paris, and from INSEAD
Executive MBA.

Multi-award winning entrepreneur, Gavin Bell really knows his onions when it comes to Facebook ads.

Not only is he a leading Facebook advertising consultant, but he’s also a renowned vlogger with millions of views.

Gavin helps brands across the world to utilise Facebook in a way that not only builds their audience, but turns that attention into revenue. His work has been featured on the likes of Virgin.com, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur on Fire, KissMetrics and Social Media Examiner.

Bogdan Costea is Head of Information Security at ING Bank Romania. He previously spent 11 years auditing both business and IT processes, including cybersecurity.

Having extensive knowledge on business and security processes allows Bogdan to identify, assess and drive implementation of security controls without impeding too much business processes.

Bogdan is highly aware of the current need to adopt security as a mindset and to make it the core business of any company, as it is not an IT issue alone. In his current role as Head of Information Security, he is preaching this on every occasion.

Iulian Tanasa is the general manager of QBS Retail&Logistics, one of SoftOne’s main partners in Romania.

With approximatively 20 years of experience in the software industry, both in sales and product development, Iulian acquired a unique blend of technical and project management skills. His experience enables the QBS team to deliver cost-effective and scalable software solutions.
With a significant amount of custom projects successfully delivered, the company has developed vertical solutions, tailored to each client’s business processes.

Uwe Maurer practices Cyber Security for more than 25 years. He worked in the fields of security operating processes, application and database security, intrusion detection, SIEM and log analysis. Our team in NTT has more than 20 years’ experience in Cyber Defense. Uwe Maurer is responsible for the Cyber Defense architecture in EMEA and still, emphases to work in key customer projects.

Dario Mancini is Country Manager for Waze, the Google-owned free social navigation app with over 120 million monthly users worldwide. He joined Waze in October 2017 having previously shown his expertise in Google being Head of Industry from 2012 to 2017 of Tech&Telco IT area.

Dario Mancini began his career holding various positions in Lexmar and British Telecom before joining Google in 2007 signing online partnership in various countries such as Ireland, Poland, Brazil and Argentina. He was born in 1976 and earned a degree in Literature.

Experienced in operational improvement for enterprise-level organizations by developing and implementing the most suitable automation technologies, based on the client industry and technical landscape. Involved in all stages of the processes lifecycle, can evaluate the automation potential of a process and propose the appropriate solution.

The highest goal is transforming any potential project into a long term partnership with the client, based on clear delivery methodologies and transparency.

Florin Andries is the Servers Business Unit Manager for HPE Romania, currently responsible for positioning HPE’s servers product portfolio to the Romanian Enterprise IT market. He is a senior IT expert, with experience in product marketing across various products and services, with expertise in taking real customer needs and deliver the best value-added solutions to address them.

Razvan Sighinas joined ING Bank Romania management Board in March as CIO.
Răzvan is active in the IT field for more than 18 years, having started as a software engineer and moving on to operations and senior management roles in US and Europe for major players including Oracle, Vodafone and Electronic Arts.

He holds an engineer’s degree from the Bucharest Polytechnic University, an MBA from HEC France and several major certifications in software and project management.

Prior to his joining ING he operated as Senior Director for Electronic Arts, running an organization spanning across US, Canada, Romania, Ireland and India in charge of providing technology solutions and services such as game engines, big data and real-time analytics solutions running behind all Electronic Arts’ digital offerings.

In the past 10 years he also headed the IT Operations for Vodafone Romania and created the IT Shared Service Center in Bucharest for Vodafone Group.

Alexandra Lucescu is the Commercial Director of SoftOne Romania, the development hub of one of the most important providers of ERP software, CRM and Web & Mobile applications in Southeastern Europe.

With over 10 years’ experience in communication, marketing and sales, especially in the IT software industry, Alexandra has been identifying new commercial opportunities and managing the marketing efforts of the company for more than 2 years. Her role within the company is to constantly provide strategic advice to upper management and offer Romanian entrepreneurs a revolutionary perspective regarding the automation of business processes.

Michael’s company (HakDefNet) currently does Cyber Intelligence research and projects focused on Global Cyber Risks, International Business and Security Leadership and are aimed at making security products, processes, solutions and defense against cyber threats as easy to understand and implement as possible.

Michael is also the author of the chapter “Cyber Security: Future IT-Security Challenges for Tomorrow’s Leaders and Businesses”, with IGI Global elaborating on elevating issues in cyber security and cyber espionage, as well as the challenges that leaders and businesses face in confronting such issues. He also has written for various IT, Channel and Business publications and newspapers internationally. Publishing Trainings and Reports about Cyber Risks.

With more than 15 years’ experience in banking in several roles, from IT to Operations, Cristian is leading now the Robotics Process Automation initiative in ING Bank Romania.

As RPA Lead, Cristian is responsible for robotics implementation in ING Bank Romania, creating awareness and bringing value to automation. He and his team are spotting automation opportunities within the organization and delivering robots to perform the repetitive and “no brainer” tasks faster and better.

Cristian has started the RPA Project in 2018 from scratch, the initiative being now in a scale-up phase.
Described as a DO-er, he has transformed an idea on a paper to a strategic project for organizational efficiency.

Being passionate about technology, innovation and internet of things, he was involved in innovative projects as mobile payments, instant issuing or cards contactless implementation.

Elder helps server side developers to work on great projects by guiding them on how to build and deliver secure, available and fast applications. With many years of Java Enterprise development experience, he is an active participant of the Jakarta EE discussions. He is also the author of “JavaEE 8 Cookbook“, where he provides deep knowledge about Java EE 8 API’s and how to use them to solve real enterprise problems. Host of the “JavaEE 8 – the Next Frontier” videocast, Elder is passionate about Java, cloud and systems architecture. As a Developer Advocate, he inspires crowds to adopt Enterprise Java by sharing experiences and best practices through online content and at international events like JavaOne, Code One, Oracle Code, TDC, QCon, Campus Party and Devnexus.

Silvian Centiu is a visionary in the use of Technology and Creative to increase the efficiency and velocity of go-to-market strategies.

He is a veteran of Oracle and Sony, and has had major contributions to many leading enterprises in Silicon Valley and The World. He is a graduate of Stanford University and University of San Francisco, and is active in teaching and research at universities on all continents.

Silvian’s current focus is researching the impact of rational, emotional, and associative values on decisions, opinions, and preferences. The development and application of this research is crucial to understanding and adapting to constantly evolving communication habits in marketing for enterprises, public diplomacy for nations, reputation for higher education institutions, etc..

Today, this research is becoming indispensable to organizations for achieving competitive business, democracy and progress, and advancement of knowledge.

Having earned a PhD in Business Computer Studies with focus on Artificial Intelligence, and numerous international awards, Andreea has been named one of the most successful young managers in Romania. Now she’s taking that success even further as the COO for Druid – a Romanian AI startup that develops a “no-code” enterprise chatbot authoring platform which helps organizations plan, develop, and deploy chatbots which enable natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations.

During college, I fell in love with computer linguistics and text analysis. I managed to make a very accurate algorithm for Hungarian language and we started the Neticle story with two of my rock star co-founders. Now we are one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups, operating with 4 products in 9 countries and ready to be market-leaders in the CEE region with our ever-growing team of 50 people.

Computer Science Engineer, excited to be working together with his teammates at bringing artificial intelligence to the domain of medicine

I am an enthusiastic and committed person; someone who demonstrates excellent time management, strong intellect and considerable tact who can quickly adapt to ever-changing demands of both legal and business fields, excellent communication skills and analytical mindset. I am the piece that unites the team and makes us a whole.

Emil is the Chief Executive Officer of Zetta Cloud and one of the Co-Founders. He has over 20 years of experience in executive, operational and technical product management roles in the software industry. Emil is the mastermind behind IntelliDockers.

Former Vice President of Lazada, the first ecommerce unicorn of SE Asia (built by Rocket Internet and bought by Alibaba). Also founded and ran the Thai office of Alodokter, one of SE Asia’s leading digital health startups. I’m an expert in pricing and digital marketing, have led teams of 50+ employees and managed monthly budgets of over $4 million.

Marketing and communication professional with over 15 years of experience delivering comprehensive marketing strategies for companies like AccorHotels, Cushman & Wakefield, GE, Aberdeen Immobilien, AEW Capital Management, etc.

Gareth Morlais (@digitalst) has been a digital storyteller since 2001 when he was part of the internationally recognised team which established the award-winning BBC Capture Wales digital storytelling project in Cardiff, Wales. Begun before YouTube existed, BBC Digital Storytelling helped citizens tell their own true stories, using their own media archives. Gareth is currently a director of the Breaking Barriers Community Arts digital storytelling project.

A Sr. Manager -Global Product Management and Marketing professional. She comes with expertise in introducing and driving thought-leadership on the latest cutting edge technology solutions like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Computing.

She is an artificial intelligence enthusiast who is motivated to drive and communicate the science and applications of AI which would radically change the way we work and live. She comes with over 12 years of experience in IT industry. Prior to Fujitsu, she was in Global Product Management and strategy roles with Hewlett Packard Enterprise driving the design and roadmap. Manju holds an MBA and Bachelor’s degree in Technology.

He graduated from the Faculty of Informatics ( Romanian-American University in Bucharest) and holds a Master’s degree in Business Management at the same university. He joined RCS & RDS team 17 years ago.

Within the Digi Group | RCS & RDS, his responsibilities are related to the development and operation of the fixed and mobile telephony networks in Romania, as well as the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) DIGI networks in Italy and Spain. Cătălin Neagoe coordinates the division that operates, plans and implements the Group’s mobile networks and decides their development, launches of new services and functionalities, following and maintaining the quality parameters.

One of the key moments in Cătălin’s career, but also for the company, was winning the tender for 3G mobile license, in 2006, followed by the commercial launch of the mobile services, in 2007. Other important moments were marked by the launch of the network in Spain, in 2008, and in Italy, in 2010. In 2018, he was appointed Director of the Fixed Telephony and Mobile Communications Division.

Passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Language Processing, and business as well, Dan has over 12 years of experience running large software development teams and building new enterprise products. Having designed and deployed enterprise solutions in multiple industries, and a keen eye for User Experience, Dan has taken the opportunity to infuse AI, Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Understanding (NLP/NLU) components into the only no-code, AI-powered, enterprise chatbot authoring platform in Romania – Druid.

My name is Marco and I have an incredible passion for technology which I had the privilege to turn into a job. I’ve been working with .NET since the first beta, focusing on ASP.NET and, more generally, anything that is web-related. I’ve been an early adopter of Microsoft Azure – who remembers the portal in Silverlight? 🙂 – and, since its introduction, Cloud technologies have represented the core of my professional interest.

Today I work as a freelance Solutions Architect in the beautiful London, focusing on Cloud transformation. Getting involved in the .NET and Azure community is also a key aspect of my profession: I’m convinced that knowledge sharing is one of the best ways to improve our professional skills, and therefore I try to dedicate as much time as I can to activities such as writing articles or speaking at conferences and meetups. Thanks to that, I’ve been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for the last 10 years in a row.

I am an experienced SEO and Digital marketing specialist with over 5 years of experience in the SEO industry from Romania.

Genuinely attracted to solving problems, she joined a local informatics club as a kid; her first interaction with a computer was an HC having actually all the instructions fitting on the keyboard. The last BASIC instruction she remembers using was RANDOMIZE USR 0 before moving on to PASCAL, C, C# and finally Java.

She holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Computers and Information Technology, codes for over a decade in Java and pivoted towards cloud-native solutions.

Her current role as a Software Engineer and Java Community Lead enables her to actively engage in client projects while also contributing to the community technical content, vision and direction, coordinating internal projects and regular technical meetups.

Andrei Cepoi is an experienced IT&C professional, with more than 15 years proven expertise in Business and IT&C consultancy, IT&C audit, Enterprise Digital Transformation and Project Management. Throughout the years, Andrei held different sales and management roles, currently being responsible of managing and developing NTT DATA business on Local Market. Andrei Cepoi graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest; he is passionate of IT & C and loves to travel.

Elena is Cyber Security enthusiast with more than 10 years background in coordinating projects in cybersecurity, developing digital subscriptions products, digital media and data privacy.

Elena joined Marsh Cyber Business Development team as Cyber Risks and Insurance Consultant focused in providing advanced cyber protection tools to major companies in Romania within an approach based on comprehensive response cover for cyber risks, backed by industry-leading cyber insurers.

Andrei is the Founder and Head of Design of UXProject, a company he has built based on his experience of over 12 years in the UX & Product Development field. During this time he has built top digital products for companies like Yahoo!, Raiffeisen Bank, National Geographic or international start-ups.

Passionate about new ways of working, Andrei is using design sprints to help companies turn ideas into realities and deliver experiences that customers will love, faster than ever before. He believes that technology is here to make our lives better and simpler. But for this to happen, we have to make an effort and understand how we should adapt technology to human needs and human behavior.

I started my professional IT career in 2007 and, in 2008, I joined the Softvision family as a Software Programmer Trainee on iOS. I also activated as a volunteer in multiple NGOs for more than 10 years where I worked with young people and helped them grow as self-fulfilled individuals.

In the software development field, I worked on iOS, covering software engineering positions as well as team lead / technical coordinator roles in multiple projects. I also had an active contribution in developing the iOS technical community through my roles as trainer, coach, mentor and Softvision University – iOS Dean.

Starting 2017 when Guilds & Communities were introduced in Softvision, I moved to a Community Manager role. I started with managing the iOS, Android and DevOps Communities and at the time being I am focused on the Enterprise Coffee Community.

In everything I did and do, I tried to combine my two passions: technology and working with people. I have always had the desire to continuously grow myself and the teams I worked with, and treat any challenge as a new opportunity.

I will use my 13 years of experience as a software tester and my 9 years of expertise as senior trainer in order to support my customers in their effort to be more innovative while approaching the quality process and testing because I strongly believe that brain can be used for creation and machines for execution

Stephen is an accomplished executive of 20 years experience in the computing security field, with over 11 years in senior management roles. With experience on both the customer and vendor side of the industry, Stephen has a rare view on what works and what doesn’t in infosec and a passion to improve things by taking a no-nonsense approach to delivering real-world focused security solutions. Stephen is a co-founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company focused on Purple Team engagements, SOC development and entry-level SIEM services.

Samantha Payne is the co-founder of Open Bionics – an award-winning robotics company turning children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney, Star Wars, Marvel and Fox to turn science fiction into reality. The startup builds affordable assistive technologies that enhance the human body. Open Bionics has won the global Robotics & AI for Good award, the James Dyson award for innovative engineering and two British Engineering Excellence awards. Samantha has been recognised as an entrepreneur to watch by Forbes30under30, Bloomberg, and Fast Company. Samantha is a WIRED innovation fellow.

Full-stack software engineer with 10 years experience on .NET, C#, web programming, SQL Server and other related technologies. Familiar with Windows Azure cloud development and distributed application architectures, Vasile is now working at UiPath as a Principal Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience on VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and other related technologies. He has a unique talent for understanding the details of how software runs and how memory is used in the application. This skill led him to achieve success when attempting to fix many bugs, performance problems or memory leaks when the case. Cosmin is now part of the UiPath Team as Senior Software Engineer since October 2018.

Alex Mihailciuc is heading the Global Pre-Sales department within UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. Alex’s department is comprised of 260+ Technical consultants, Engineers and Competitive analysist delivering RPA solutions and POCs to the wide pool of UiPath customers and prospects.

Alex is a highly motivated and goal-oriented leader with exceptional leadership and demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing IT solutions that support the business strategy and increase business capabilities. Previous to UiPath, Alex has been leading Solutions and consulting teams for Genpact covering the entire ITO industry spectrum for over and hold various other leadership roles within tech companies for over 13 years.

Joeri Van den Bergh is co-founder, managing partner and NextGen expert at InSites Consulting, a global ‘new generation’ research agency with offices in New York, London, Rotterdam, Sydney, Ghent, Timisoara, Düsseldorf, Johannesburg, Paris, Manchester and Singapore. He has extensive experience of all aspects of branding, marketing and advertising to kids, teens and young adults. His clients include global customers such as eBay, Coca-Cola, Spotify, Danone, Red Bull, IKEA, Heineken, Converse, Nestlé, AXA and Unilever for whom he has provided research and advice on how to target the youth market.

He is an awarded global thought leader and marketing author on the impact of Millennials and Generation Z on marketing and business. His best-selling marketing book How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y and Z has been awarded several times (a.o. The American Marketing Association Berry-AMA Book Prize).

Visit www.howcoolbrandsstayhot.com for more information.

We are happy to announce to you that the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, will be the guest of honor on the Main Stage, at the Opening Ceremony of GoTech World, to be held on the 2nd of October, at 10am.

In love with communication, interested in social trends, focused on strategy, experienced in data analysis, looking for new challenges.

Claudia is an entrepreneur for 16 years, leading spoon team from media to digital expertise.

Ovidiu Joita has worked in the marketing and advertising field for over 17 years. He has predominantly worked in the online field for the last 15 years and has handled hundreds of projects. He has founded iAgency.ro, his own online marketing and SEO agency in 2008. In iAgency’s portfolio, you can find famous names in the online Romanian market: Elvila, DC News, Veloteca, Floria, Total Soft (charisma.ro), Retargeting.biz, Mekior.ro, ChristianTour.ro…

“I believe that every business needs to be present online! A lot of people have the wrong idea that only e-commerce businesses need online marketing or SEO. People are searching for everything on the internet: even for a company’s solvency, not to mention the quality of the products, of the services or the consumer’s reviews on these. What do we precisely do at iAgency? We handle a business located “high on the Everest mountain” that is available only for a few people each year and we bring it in the center of the city, in the most crowded traffic. We make it visible for everyone!”

Hani is CX enthusiast and expert with over 10 years in the Customer eXperience field. Hani is travelling across the globe, from Eastern Central Europe through Middle East and Africa and helping organizations in realizing their CX dream while keeping customer centricity at heart. He brings with him valuable industry experience having helped multiple organizations across various industries adopt a customer centric approach. In his spare time Hani discovers the beauty of visited places and cultures.

Laurețiu has a vast experience in software development, with a focus on business solutions for the leasing market. For more than 12 years, he has solved the challenges of major leasing players, starting form local companies and up to strong international financial organizations such as Deutsche Leasing.

He is now leading the development team for Charisma Enterprise Financial Services and is responsible for all the development projects. Mentor, coach and leader of in his department, he is in charge with the development strategy, integrating new technologies and taking new steps towards democratization of technology. He graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies and has an MBA at Tiffin University.

Adrian is a Senior Business Developer at ENGIE being responsible with the development of new business in the areas of electric mobility, renewable energy production and technical services.

He is a dynamic professional with a track record of project coordination and implementation and 5+ years of experience with top players of the energy & utilities industry. He has a PhD in Systems Engineering and professional expertise in project management, energy efficiency and energy modelling, electrical and automation systems, business analysis and financial modelling.

Mihai believes in social change through smart design—incorporating architecture, design, engineering and sustainability. Someday he aims to create the best homes in the world, while improving cities and communities.

In 2012 Mihai cofounded EFdeN and since then he has been leading more than 500 young people forming multi-disciplinary teams that designed and built 2 of world’s most sustainable houses. EFdeN participated in the world’s most important international competition for green homes – Solar Decathlon in Versailles 2014 and Dubai 2018, winning over 40 national and international awards.

Mihai is also the cofounder of energiaTa and successfully created Romania’s biggest prosumers community and changed a law to make household renewable energy production a reality in Romania.

Mihai has co-chaired the first edition of Eisenhower Fellowships Youth Leaders Network focusing on Future of Work challenges, is currently the Chairman of Future Energy Leaders Romania, a Climate Reality Leader, Global Shaper and Aspen Young Leader.

Because I love working with people and because I consider that technology is a step towards evolution, I decided to make my career as an IT consultant. 12 years have passed since then and still, my work is a pleasure.

Vincent Schachter is an entrepreneur at the crossroads of energy, mobility and digital, with a strong track record growing organizations through product development and partnerships.

He is currently Head of Global Energy Services at ENEL X e-Mobility, helping integrate e-MotorWerks within ENEL X. Since 2016 he has been Senior Vice-President, Energy Services at eMotorWerks, a Bay Area startup pioneer in the Vehicle-Grid integration space, developing the leading Electrical Vehicle smart charging aggregation platform JuiceNet. There, he has been driving the company’s energy related business and software products. eMotorWerks was acquired by Enel Group, the largest integrated utility in Europe, in October 2017.

Johan joined the international multi-awarded fintech company Ebury as Country Manager for Romania and Bulgaria early 2018. With years of experience gained while working in management positions for widely known companies such as Eli Lilly, Mars, PepsiCo, Capital One, MasterCard, Johan came to Romania in 2009 and worked as CEO for banks and financial institutions such as RBS and moneycorp. He is dedicated to the Romanian market and business environment and wants to introduce Ebury’s innovative services in the field of external payments and FX exchange through top client services tailored to the specific needs of each client.

Innovative and focused on the future, Johan is a dynamic and inspirational team leader, who energizes and stimulates the others through his contagious optimism.

With extensive expertise in microelectronics and programming, he designs and implements creative and successful IOT applications.

Andrei Georgescu is co-founder and Managing Director of White Image for more than 15 years. He is passionate about data and solutions that generate results. Currently, White Image delivers Data Management and E-Mail Marketing solutions for customers from e-commerce, banking, auto, HR, and many other fields. You can also find Andrei as a teacher at the IAA School where he teaches E-Mail Marketing, data management & marketing automation.

Rolf joined Tradeshift at the very beginning as an engineer/code monkey. He has experienced the wild adventure going from 5 employees in a garage to +950 employees on a global scale. Today, he works at a strategic level with making product and engineering deliver successfully to the customers of Tradeshift. Rolf is based in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.

Catalin Macovei is the CEO of MoLoSo, the biggest performance agency in Romania. Helped by his team at MoLoSo, they provide scalable and profitable marketing campaigns for businesses that want to sell their product local or international using Google & Facebook.

With over 20 years of experience in various software development positions, from programmer to architect, Marian Simpetru is currently Managing Partner at eSolutions, where he is also involved in developing custom software solutions and architectures.

In the last four years he has been actively working on conceiving big-data platform architectures and managing custom projects which he oversees from kick-off to delivery.

· Extensive experience in the IT industry
· Founded eSolutions in 2001
· More than 15 years of IT management experience
· Occasional speaker at local and international tech events on Open Source technologies, Java and Big Data

Florin is a marketer with hundreds of active digital campaigns and an extensive experience in developing marketing strategies. He is aware of the fine line between reason and emotion and knows that the difference between a good strategy and an exceptional strategy has its deep roots in the mind of the consumer.
The online marketing agency that Florin leads, AdMarks Media, is based on a close partnership with its customers and efficient campaigns with strong impact in online.

He offers his partners SEO campaigns folded on to their needs and well-structured marketing strategies together with the people he work with.

Throughout his career as an entrepreneur, Florin has focused on creating and developing successful businesses in areas such as fashion, IT & C, pharmaceuticals, banking, home and garden, and children’s products.

Monica is a market research expert, passionate about consumer understanding using leading-edge research methodologies. She has more than 10 years of experience in market research for international and local companies. She was in charge with coordinating research studies for various brands from: telco, media, FMCG, finance, etc. sectors.
In 2015 she set up Wave (former WaveTree.Zero) the first online community research hub in Romania gathering together specialists from various domains (both market research and business experts, as well as anthropologists and designers).

Currently, she leads Wave in running online research communities for top major brands on the market as well as helping local businesses to thrive in understanding their consumers using classical research methodologies.

The founder and CEO of the company is Mihai Alexandru Dăncilă, with more than 10 years experience in sales management and sales manager coaching, and over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry at Orange Romania, where he started with an entry-level job and later had several projects local and national level coordinated.

Mihai excelled in the national project based on the results achieved by coaching the sales teams, where he was responsible for implementing a new service of the company in over 90 sales teams with more than 600 employees.

In 2015, he built the Furnicuele brand (the ants), a cleaning company. After selling this brand to an investment fund just 8 months after its launch, he focused his attention on the development of the Consilo HR brand, under which he created and supported various coaching and sales training projects.

Since 2016, Mihai has returned to the telecommunications industry through the Consilo WEB project, working with one of the world’s largest telecommunications service providers. Since then, Consilo Web has been outsourcing telesales – customer retention .

Behind Mihai, there is currently a team of over 50 specialists with sales experience – including members of administrative, IT team, HR and quality teams – some of whom have been internally “educated” through workplace education and training programs.

Experienced player in the copyright industry, licensing imagery, video and audio – with a working history of over 20 years in the regional Eastern European commercial photography industry.

Started in the early times in of the analogue archives at Getty Images Romania and since 2018 became a fascinated witness of how technology shapes and empowers visual content, managing the Shutterstock platforms for the Romanian and Bulgarian markets.

One of the top 50 CEOs of the Year in 2018 and one of the top 100 Young Managers by Business Magazine – enjoys building teams and businesses that accelerate their results by creating their omnichannel ecosystems and promoting an accelerated digital transformation.

By the age of 30, he managed to build 2 successful start-ups (the most recent being Omniperform), that are recognized as some of the most accelerated businesses in the media & advertising industry; and featured in publications such as Forbes, Wall-Street, Business Cover or Business Review.

Now he is leading Angels Den Funding by connecting and understanding the world better, from both sides: building and creating start-ups one-side, and helping high potential companies receive funding on the other.

By having renowned industry leaders attend his presentations and keynote speeches at worldwide conferences, he has proven that leading through education is the best way to properly build a team and prepare for the future.

Mircea Prelipceanu is Head of International Sales at CAS Software AG – the leading German supplier of CRM software for small and medium-sized enterprises. More than 400,000 people in over 25,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CAS CRM: a powerful standard solution, flexible to meet the customer’s needs, great ergonomics, proven and awarded in practice and excellent value for money.

Born and raised in Romania with extensive working experience in different countries throughout Europe, Mircea Prelipceanu has been working for CAS Software AG for more than 10 years. During this time he established a worldwide partner channel network which delivers an excellent service for the customer. Furthermore he advises companies on the usage of CRM solutions and holds regular lectures on Sales, Customer Relationship Management and CRM implementation best practice.

Darko Meszaros is a Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS. As a Specialist SA within AWS, he helps shape the strategy and enable the broad use of AWS Management Tools and The AWS Marketplace, by directly working with customers. Darko owns the technical engagement and defining implementation architectures, developing deep expertise in the AWS Management Tools and DevOps technologies.

Darko worked his way up from AWS Premium Support, and 11+ years of experience in various spheres of IT – from Government Offices to large Telcos – always trying to automate things. He comes from Subotica, Serbia.

Being obsessed with customer experience Jaroslav accepted a new challenge to establish a real customer-centric approach at Revolgy. His past experience includes working closely with local technology communities across different countries and cultures and tightening the relationship of companies he worked for, with these communities. He has been their ambassador and preached about their technologies at conferences, meetups, and seminars. He also worked as a leader of small teams of developers, technical writer, evangelist, and a product owner.

Stepan has started working on with implementation & integration of computing and virtualization platforms right after finishing high school. He gained proficiency in it shortly and soon became a respected consultant. He then got to work on cloud projects – initially as an Ops specialist. Nowadays he’s focused more on architecture building and implementation of cloud solutions. Stepan is passionate about automation and a big enthusiast of DevOps culture who loves to cooperate closely with developers.

Bogdan Colceriu was a strategic consultant for 10 years for important Romanian companies while becoming a serial entrepreneur as co-founder of Trilulilu – the no.1 streaming service in Romania, Okian – the largest online bookstore in Romania and later Frisbo – the first e-fulfillment service in Romania. Bogdan is now CEO of Frisbo E-fulfillment Services expanding it in the region as well as founding manager of Risky Business, the first pre-seed fund dedicated to accelerating startups in the region.

Mihnea is an e-Government enthusiast having spent recent years in top management positions for Romanian IT businesses. He is now Deputy CEO for Trencadis Corp, an organic growing Romanian integrator managing complex IT systems, accessed by more than 100.000 citizens daily. Mihnea joined Trencadis in May 2017 having previously shown his expertise in implementing many critical systems as Project and Program Manager from 2003 to 2017 in e-Government, Retail, Automotive and Telco IT sectors.

Mihnea Mihailescu began his project management career holding local and regional positions in Softwin and IBM, implementing projects in various countries, such as Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and UK. He earned a degree in Economics and likes to ski and travel in the rural and historic sites of Romania.

Mircea has over 14 years experience in Telecom, having worked in local and international environments covering Mobile, Fixed and ICT fields.

With over 2 years of offline B2B experience as Trade Marketing Manager, Oana joined eMAG in 2016 and built the basis of the Seller Performance department in eMAG Marketplace. The main goal of the team is to develop a client-oriented online behavior for eMAG Marketplace partners and offer them tailor-made growth solutions. The team contribution represents more than 90% in the gross merchandise value for Marketplace products.

For the past 20+ years, I’ve been involved in various digital fields. Always looking for improving own skills on development methodologies and development design patterns, with a focus on building well-structured applications for various environments.

Like every IT guy almost as old as the Internet, my early years of programming started by playing games on HC 85 Ice Felix, followed by programming my own in QBasic and C.

In the continuous search for new technologies, I help developers to build and deliver stable, reliable and secure applications. All of these, of course in an agile ecosystem (or methodology :D)

Intersecting software with hardware for about 5 years I also design big data infrastructures and prepare them for high availability telemetry ingestion, play with time series dbases like InfluxDB or Prometheus and do advanced geospatial analysis in python or JS, for web.